The gene pool is a bit cleaner today

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Man talking on cell phone killed by train

The victim, a man who was not immediately identified, was struck at 12:30 p.m. by a northbound Capitol Corridor train at the Alvarado Street crossing, about 8 miles south of the Oakland station, Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham said.

The way the story was reported makes me laugh...I wonder WHY he wasn't immediately identified! LMAO! Perhaps because he was a flat as a pancake? Hmmm?
 
There are a bunch of others I wish would do the same thing. I just couldn't be that dang lucky.
 
I have a hard time figuring how someone could NOT "sense" a train even if they were involved in a conversation. Sure, the tram on the boardwalk ...but something as big as ...well ..as big as a train?? They aren't silent nor invisible.
 
People make silly mistakes sometimes, and sometimes they are fatal.

I don't remember people talking about "cleansing the gene pool" when a forum member was killed in what could have been considered forseeable circumstances.
 
Well, surely one glitch can turn into a lethal mistake. There was a bungy chord jumping "instructor" who was showing prospective jumpers what not to do when rigging the cuffs (or whatever they're called)...then calmly jumped while not doing what he warned them about.

Whether or not the pool is cleaner for the elimination ..random natural selection occurred in spite of environmental inhibitors being in place. He went out of his way to earn a front of the line status in Darwin Award consideration.

I'm sure someone misses him.

I hope that he was booking a hotel room or flight while on the phone. I would not want to be a friend that had the distinction of being "the guy who was preoccupying and distracting him when he got killed". Not that it was their fault ..but being an element in the list of ingredients would kinda suck.
 
A great-uncle of mine many years ago (never knew him) was a logger over near Forks, Washington and was instructing people how NOT to fell a tree- he did it only once.

It does not take much inattention to cause a fatal or otherwise serious accident- I know because I am often three feet from death due to my proximity to moving vehicles.
 
In the early '70s, my granduncle, a retired military surgeon, saw a 1/8 ton granite mile marker lying in the middle of a small country road that he took every day. There was almost no traffic on that road. We know he pulled over his Volvo and got out to move the stone to the side. He was killed by a car that came speeding around a curve.
 
My grandpa stopped to look at a rattlesnake lying in the road that he thought was dead.
It wasn't. Bit him twice.
I never understood why he let it get him a second time.
 
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